Stove-handle.



M. A. POSSONS.

STOVE HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 29. 1914.

Patented Apr. 20, 1915.7

289mm 0mm marrnn STATES PATENT orTTon.

MINARD A. POSSONS, CLEVELAND, OI'IIO, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN STOVECOMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

STOVE-HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MINARD A. POSSONS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove-Handles, of whichthe following is a specification, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvements in stove handles, and pertainsparticularly to handles adapted to be secured to the oven doors of gasranges, and having certain details of structure and operationhereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1, is a perspective view of ahandle embodying my invention applied to a section of a gas range ovendoor. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the several parts separated.Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken on the line 3--3 ofFig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of'a modified form of handleattached to a section of a gas range oven door.

Referring now to the drawings, 1 repre sents a portion of an oven doorhaving two openings 2 and 3, spaced apart and through which extend thearms 4 and 5 of the U- shaped member 6, as fully shown in Fig. 1 of thedrawings. This U-shaped member is secured to the oven door by means ofscrews 7 passing through the front face thereof and entering thescrew-threaded openings in the said member. The outer free ends of themembers 4 and 5 have reduced rounded portions 8 and 9, provided withscrew-threaded openings 10 and 11. The opening 10 has a right hand screwthread, while the opening 11 has a left hand thread, the purpose ofwhich will be hereinafter more fully described. The reduced portions 8and 9 of the members 4 and 5, form the shoulders 12, the object of whichwill be later described.

The handle proper is formed of an elongated porcelain member 13 havingan opening 14 extending entirely therethrough and provided with alongitudinally extending groove 15, communicating with the opening 14.Extending through the opening 14 is a rod 16, having fins 17 adapted toenter the groove 15, and whereby the rod is held within the porcelainhandle 13 against rotation, as will be readily understood. The bolt 16is of a length to extend considerably beyond the porcelain handle 13 andis provided with a right hand threaded portion 18 at one end and a lefthanded threaded portion 19 at the opposite end, which are adapted toscrew into the threaded openings 10 and 11 of the members 4 and 5.

Fitting on the ends of the porcelain handle portion 13, are the twoferrules 20 and 21, which are provided with slots 22, extendlnglongitudinally thereof, whereby the ferrules may be slightly expanded tofit the porcelain handle 13, to allow for any variation in the diameterof the handle, as will be readily understood. The ferrules are providedwith transverse disks 23 intermediate their ends and which are providedwith openings 24, through which the rod 16 passes and whereby it iscentered within the handle. The ferrules adjacent their outer ends areprovided with slots 25, which extend transverse thereof and are of asize equal to the reduced portions 8 and 9 of the members 4 and 5. Thereduced portions 8 and 9 of the members 4 and 5 pass into the ferrulesthrough slots 25 and the screw-threaded openings 10 and 11 will comeopposite the threaded ends 18 and 19 of the rod 16, and the shouldersabut the outer faces of the ferrules.

In order to insert the reduced portions 8 and 9 of the members 4 and 5in the ferrules, it is necessary to spring the arms slightly apart tobring the openings 10 and 11 beyond the screw-threaded portions 18 and19 of the rod as the distance with the two slots 25 of the ferrules whenthe porcelain handle 13 is in its normal position is equal to thedistance between the arms 4 and 5. After the parts have thus beeninserted with the arms slightly diverging, the porcelain handle 13 isturned to the left and the rod 16 being held therein against rotation bythe fins 17, it will be seen that the right and left handed threadedportions 18 and 19 will screw into the right and left handed threadedopenings 10 and 11, and the arms 4 and'5 drawn inwardly until theferrules are clamped tightly upon the handle 13 with the arms paralleland the handle is in its assembled and operative position.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the members 4 and 5 are notconnected, but are separately secured to the section 1 of the oven doorby means of screws 26 and 27.

The outer ends of the said members 4 and 5 are constructed preciselylike the members 4 and 5 of the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and theferrules 20 and 21 and the handle 13 are all arranged precisely like thepreferred form and need no further description.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. A handle of the character described,

between said spaced members, a rod extending through the member and heldagainst rotation therein, ferrules carried by the member and adapted toreceive the ends of the spaced members and said rod having a right andleft-hand thread adapted to be screwed into the openings in the spacedmembers within the ferrules.

3. A handle comprising two spaced members having screw-threaded openingstherein, a member between said spaced members, ferrules carried by theends of the member and having openings to receive the outer ends of thespaced members, a rod extending through the member and held againstrotation therein, the said rod beyond the member having a right andleft-hand thread adapted to be screwed intothe openings of the spacedmembers within the ferrule.

4. A handle comprising two spaced members having screw-threaded openingstherein, a member between said spaced members, ferrules loosely mountedupon the ends of the member and having openings therein adapted toreceive the ends of the spaced members, a rod extending through. thememher and keyed therein against rotation and said rod extending beyondthe member and having right and left hand threads on opposite endsadapted to screw into the threaded openings of the spaced members withinthe ferrule.

5. A handle comprising two spaced members having screw threaded openingsthere- 1 in, a member between said spaced members, ferrules looselymounted upon the outer ends of the member and having openings adapted toreceive the reduced outer ends of the spaced members,a rod extendingthrough the member and held against rotation therein and extendingbeyond the ends of the member and having a right and left-hand threadadapted to screw into the openings in the spaced members within theferrule.

6. A handle comprising two spaced members, a member between the saidspaced members, ferrules loosely mounted upon the bers having screwthreaded openings at their outer ends, a member between said spacedmembers, ferrules carried by the member and having transverse disksintermediate their ends and provided with central openings, saidferrules having transverse openings adapted to receive the ends of thespaced members, a rod extending loosely through the member and having aright and left hand threaded portion beyond the member and adapted toscrew into the threaded openings in the outer end of the spaced memberswithin the ferrules.

8. A handle comprising two spaced members having reduced outer endsprovided with openings having right and left hand threads, a porcelainmember between the spaced members and having a longitudinal openingtherethrough provided with grooves, ferrules loosely mounted upon themember and having transverse openings adapted to receive the reducedends of the spaced members, said ferrules having transverse disksintermediate their ends and having central openings therein, a rodloosely passing through the longitudinal opening for the member andhaving fins adapted to enter the grooves and lock it against rotationwithin the member, and'having a right and left hand thread beyond themember passing through the disks within the ferrules and screwed withinthe openings in the reduced ends of the spacedmembers within theferrules.

' In testimony whereof- I hereunto affix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

MINARD A; rossoNs.

Witnesses L. M. KELLY, F. T. BATCHELOR.

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